1985 Nov 1 - 1986 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1965
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 8)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Feb 19 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 459 |
| Any docs withheld? | 7 |
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Showing items 41 - 60 of 68
| Date |
Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 6 Fr | Major | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Eminent Persons Group: Possibility of the Prime Minister Seeing General Obasanjo") ["keen to have a private talk with [MT]... [is] in a position to play a key role in the Group"; MT agrees] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: freehold rights") ["If asked about this development you may wish to comment that we welcome the intention to allow black home owners to acquire freehold rights"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Visit of Lord Barber") [report on meeting with President Botha and Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Major | South Africa: MT letter to Dr. Julius Nyerere (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting/Nassau Accord; Eminent Persons Group; resignation from Presidency of Tanzania] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Major | South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French sanctions against South Africa") [possibility of being mooted at annual Franco-African summit and/or European Council; Franco/African trade] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Major | South Africa: Howe PS letter to Brittan PS (Commonwealth Accord on South Africa) ["we should not get ahead of others in importing a ban on the sale of Kruggerands"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Major | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("EC Code of Conduct") ["for European companies with subsidiaries in South Africa... [role] in the economic development of black South Africans... the Code has been strengthened"; details] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Major | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Group on South Africa) [text of Statement "embodying my Government's reactions"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Enos Mabuza) [strategy for initiating dialogue between S. African government & black representatives] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 23 Sa | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["three points which could tip the balance into South African rejection of the EPG"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 23 Sa | Major | South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [membership; constitution; press release] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Major | South Africa: No.10 briefing note for MT (meeting with Enos Mabuza) [concise character sketch; FCO briefing attached] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Major | South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") [membership; announcement to S. African government; assessment of S. African government reaction] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Major | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 16 Sa | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 14 Th | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 13 We | Major | South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 85 Nov 12 Tu | Major | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016] |